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9:05:49
amirouche
having access to the data, and being able to work with it programmatically, and among other things display it
9:06:23
amirouche
the markup language is only useful to transport / transfer small snippets of data that is structured
9:08:05
amirouche
being able to relate, or better: map, the "markup language" to s-exp is a good thing because it helps with knowledge re-use, and ease the making of higher level tooling
9:12:33
amirouche
e.g. s-exp vs. JSON vs XML vs. TOML... the community has debated at length what is best, promoting, in good faith, the best tool for the job, tho IMO they only touched the surface of the problem, ie the grammar enclosing the data that matters [...])
9:13:53
amirouche
I am certainly biased, but none markup language outside s-exp was built with the promise to require only a simpler parser, while being able to represent a lot of things
9:16:45
amirouche
re web browser, and more generally the client-server chism, after much thinking, it is clear to me that client-server, in particular client-cloud is very useful. In other words, smalltech, and smallweb should not be against the cloud, but instead pro user empowerment
9:18:08
amirouche
the reason is that I for one can't host very large database at home, and even if I could, I certainly would want to have backups secured by someone else
9:19:49
amirouche
So, in the lense of user empowerment, and the necessity of having ressource, the current web browser stack should, and can be improved.
9:24:49
msavoritias
and its due to lack of imagination that current tech community thinks its a solution to anything
9:29:25
amirouche
I am not sure what do you mean by "cloud the amazon way", what I wanted to push is that the question of improving or changing web browser make sense. In my mind, the cloud is for a pool of hardware ressource. The approach of Amazon to making that hardware available can also be improved
9:33:06
amirouche
Buying hardware, OSS, and making that available in a nice GUI sure helps some people.
10:02:09
msavoritias
ah yeah. something plan9 like where people can "share" computing resources is a nice concept
10:07:00
White_Flame
however, you can have utilities that periodically re-upload your content into that cache
10:09:04
White_Flame
as far as computation goes, various projects have had opt-in success of users entering their pools (seti, protein folding, etc) but nothing where it's just openly available